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Several men who are being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say they’ve been stripped of ‘human rights’ since arriving on Friday ...

Lack of water to bathe, food with maggots, toilets that didn't flush, giant bugs, little access to washrooms, and "mosquitoes ...

The Carbondale Area Junior/Senior High School Science and Technology Club recently hosted a Blast Off to Summer STEM Night ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Thai conservationist Lek Chailert, founder of Save Elephant Foundation, shared a simple Instagram video that’s now going viral. In the clip, she sits beside two elephants and softly sings to them.

But this time, an emergency call took him to Cambodia, where a tusk extraction procedure on an elephant had never been done before. The journey leading up to this huge undertaking began about 18 ...

Life On White/Photodisc/Getty Images (chameleon); ross1248/E+/Getty Images (kangaroo); Burazin/The Image Bank/Getty Images (elephant) Every time you open up a Google Doc with the setting “anyone ...

Dr. Seuss was an American artist who was born in 1904. How much does a Dr. Seuss cost? Dr. Seuss's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 60,000 ...